Improved boot-jack



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE'.

'ILLIAM lV. (lANSLER, Oli BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVED BOOT-JACK.

Specification forming partl of Letters Patent No. 22,700, dated January 25, 1859.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, lVILLIAM Nl'. CANSLER, ofthe city and county of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented a new and usefuland Improved ,lootJaclQ and I do hereby declare that the same is described and represented in the following speci ication and drawings.

To enable others skilled in the art te make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and the mode of using it, referring to the drawings, in which the same letters indicate like parts in each of the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan ertop view. Fig. 2 is an elevation. Fig. 3 represents it shuter closed.

The nature of my invention and improvement consists in a metallic boot iack with pointed prongs atonc end and a point at the other, so as to serve as a brace to fasten the door of a room. It is also provided with a hinge to fold it lengthwise when packed for traveling.

In the accompanying drawings, A A lepresent the two parts of my metal boot-jack, made in the form shown in Fig. 1 and ceuneeted in the center under the lille B by the hinge C. (Shown in Figs. i. and 3.) Each part is provided with a fiange I) D, Fig. 2,

which serve as legs to hold up the crotehcdend when the boot-jack is used. These legs D D shut by euch other into the scores E E when the two parts are closed` as shown in Fi". Il, and the legs come opposite the anges l1" F, which project from the parts A A on the opposite side from the legs, as shown iny Figs. il and 3. When this jack is used to draw a boot, it is opened, as shown in Fig. 1, and the legs l) I), resting ou the floor, (represented by the line (l, Fig. 2,) and one foot placed en it, the boot may be drawn from the other foot in the usual manner. The ends oi1 tllcprongs ll il, which form4 the crotch, are pointed so as to readily catch into the floor or carpet, and the opposite end of the part A has a conical peint I, which will readily catch into a door when the boot-jack is set atan angle of about forty-five degrees, with the points 1I ll against the floor and the point I against a door Lo prevent the door from being opened, thus making it serve two purposesto draw boot s and fasten doors-and when provided with a leather or paper case it may be conveniently carried when traveling.

This boot-jack may be cast of brass or some other compositions of metals, or of iron and converted into malleable iron bythe mede usually practiced.

The pin J (shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3) may be placed in the meld and the metal cast around it in the same manner that'the conimon butt-hinges are east, or the parts may be cast and a hole drilled for the pin, as may be preferred. The areabetween the sides may be ornamentcd with scroll-work, as shown in Fig. 1.

My improvements make a durable, cheap, and portable boot-jaek,'which will also serve as a door-fastener.

I believe I have described and represented my improved boot-jack so as te enable any person skilled in the art to make and use it. I will secure by Letters Patent, viz: i I elaim The metal folding boot-j ack described, with pointed prongs and pointed end, as a new article of manufacture.

XVM. XV. CANSLER. Witnesses:

me. W. Sinne, J. DENNIs, Jr.

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